The best acrobats in Melbourne
This city trains a lot of acrobats and keeps most of them, yet the number available to a private booking on a given Saturday is far smaller than that reputation implies. The page under this text is brief. Read it as a starting point, put one brief in front of everybody on it the same day, and leave yourself room to look further out if December is your month.
Before any of that, settle whether you want feet on the floor or a body in the air. Those are two different purchases with two different sets of paperwork, and the second one depends entirely on what your building will let you hang from.
Top picks in Melbourne
Top picks are the acts in this category in Melbourne, with premium listings first (no visible client reviews or ratings in this list).
Questions people ask about acrobats in Melbourne
Do I need a rigging point for an acrobat in Melbourne?
Only if the routine leaves the ground. Silks, hoop and straps all need an engineered anchor and the building's sign off in writing, while tumbling and partner balancing want clear floor, matting and height instead. A Melbourne venue that says no to rigging has not ruled out the booking, just half of it.
What documents should I ask an acrobat for?
Three things: the insurance certificate, whatever height or rigging qualification the routine leans on, and a written safety plan your venue can read. Raise it early rather than in the fortnight before, since chasing a missing certificate is slow work. We verify nothing about anybody here, so treat each claim as unproven until the file itself lands in your inbox.
How do I choose between performers with no ratings on the page?
There is no rating attached to a single act here, which leaves the footage doing all of it. Watch for a clip filmed in an ordinary function room under ordinary lighting, where the approach and the landing were left in the edit. A performer who cannot give you a straight number for how early they need to be on site is telling you something as well.
How long should an acrobatic act perform at an event?
Short and with the room's attention on it. Five to seven minutes as a feature beats twenty minutes competing with a bar, and most performers will tell you the same before you ask. Roving bursts of ground work between courses are the other good shape, in blocks with rest in between rather than continuously.
Booking tips
Ask the building first, the performer second
Anything aerial hangs from a point that has to be rated in writing for a moving load, and a warehouse beam in Brunswick is not rated because it looks solid. Get the venue's answer in kilograms before you fall for a particular act.
Ask for the documents yourself, every time
Cover, certification and a written safety plan all have to come from the act, in a file you can open and forward. No act on this site has been checked by us and we keep none of this on file, so anything you have not been sent is something you do not have.
Give the height and the floor as numbers
A performer standing on another performer's shoulders and then lifting is taller than most Melbourne function rooms allow for, and a hand to hand routine needs run up space as well as landing space. Put both measurements in your first message.